linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54291: vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <2025123029-CVE-2023-54291-2983@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:23:44 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54291: vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity callback can be called
with NULL value as cpu_mask when deleting the vduse
device.

This patch resets virtqueue's IRQ affinity mask value
to set all CPUs instead of dereferencing NULL cpu_mask.

[ 4760.952149] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 4760.959110] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 4760.964247] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 4760.969385] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 4760.971927] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 4760.976112] CPU: 13 PID: 2346 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6+ #4
[ 4760.982291] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0W23H8, BIOS 2.8.1 06/26/2020
[ 4760.989769] RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4760.994049] Code: 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 54 17 f0 4c 89 5c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 fa 08 72 1b <4c> 8b 06 4c 8b 4c 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66
[ 4761.012793] RSP: 0018:ffffb1d565abb830 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 4761.018020] RAX: ffff9f4bf6b27898 RBX: ffff9f4be23969c0 RCX: ffff9f4bcadf6400
[ 4761.025152] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f4bf6b27898
[ 4761.032286] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.039416] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000600 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.046549] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: ffffb1d565abbb10
[ 4761.053680] FS:  00007f64c2ec2740(0000) GS:ffff9f635f980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 4761.061765] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 4761.067513] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000001875270006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[ 4761.074645] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.081775] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 4761.088909] PKRU: 55555554
[ 4761.091620] Call Trace:
[ 4761.094074]  <TASK>
[ 4761.096180]  ? __die+0x1f/0x70
[ 4761.099238]  ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4f0
[ 4761.103340]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x180
[ 4761.107265]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 4761.111460]  ? memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4761.115126]  vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity+0x3e/0x50 [vduse]
[ 4761.120533]  virtnet_clean_affinity.part.0+0x3d/0x90 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.126635]  remove_vq_common+0x1a4/0x250 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.131781]  virtnet_remove+0x5d/0x70 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.136580]  virtio_dev_remove+0x3a/0x90
[ 4761.140509]  device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200
[ 4761.145742]  bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130
[ 4761.149755]  device_del+0x158/0x3e0
[ 4761.153245]  ? kernfs_find_ns+0x35/0xc0
[ 4761.157086]  device_unregister+0x13/0x60
[ 4761.161010]  unregister_virtio_device+0x11/0x20
[ 4761.165543]  device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200
[ 4761.170770]  bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130
[ 4761.174782]  device_del+0x158/0x3e0
[ 4761.178276]  ? __pfx_vdpa_name_match+0x10/0x10 [vdpa]
[ 4761.183336]  device_unregister+0x13/0x60
[ 4761.187260]  vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_del_set_doit+0x63/0xe0 [vdpa]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54291 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 28f6288eb63d5979fa6758e64f52e4d55cf184a8 and fixed in 6.4.4 with commit f9d46429de2a251e1e4962e1bf86c344d6336562
	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 28f6288eb63d5979fa6758e64f52e4d55cf184a8 and fixed in 6.5 with commit f06cf1e1a503169280467d12d2ec89bf2c30ace7

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-54291
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9d46429de2a251e1e4962e1bf86c344d6336562
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06cf1e1a503169280467d12d2ec89bf2c30ace7